He Leads Me Beside Still Waters

4. Let us take note that Divine waters are waters of refreshment.

When the road we travel is rough and rugged. When the road we travel is hard and steep. When the road we travel is long and tired some. When the road we travel is narrow and unpromising. When the road we travel is hot and gloomy I want, you to know there are Divine watering places along the way. We need to stop and enjoy the oasis that God provides us along the way. Every day there is a time for you to have a private time alone with God in Bible reading and prayer. There is also the time we can spend time with our family in helping one another to read the Bible and pray over needs that are present. We also are given times that, we can be in the house of God for worship. Missing one day a week to worship makes a weak Christian. God made it clear in the O. T. that we are to take one day to worship Him. This is given to us in the Ten Commandments and served as a pattern all through the O. T. When Jesus came into the world, it tells us that He and His family spent one day a week in the house of God. If Jesus was holy and without sin yet took, time to worship God, do we who are born with sin need to take time to worship. For some of us we need more than just one hour on Sunday to help our spiritual lives and so we gather together for Bible Studies and prayer meetings. We live in a rushed world and I have listened to you since I have been here say how busy you are. What are you doing to be refreshed by God? Is it working?

5. Let us take note that Divine waters are fresh waters.

The waters that God sends our way are not stagnant, infested with mosquitoes and disease like the world would offer us. This points us to a story that Jesus gave us about a son who decided that he would take his inheritance and leave his father’s house and go out to find all the pleasures this world could give. He left and found such fun that he had never known before. When he had wasted all that he had been given he found that no one cared for him and could only find a job with a pig farmer. It seems that he did not even make enough money to have food. The best he could find was the slop he feed to the pigs. Then his mind remembered his father’s house and that the lowest servant had food and clothes better than he was having. Jesus told us this story to help us know we can have much wealth and pleasure but if we are out of our heavenly Father’s care we are living miserable lives. The Bible says that when this young man came to his senses and went back to his father’s house and found all he needed. The Bible also tells us of the Israelites desired the onions, leeks and garlic of Egypt rather than the food that God provided for them in the freedom in the desert. God knows what is best and gives us best which is always fresh water. LAM3:22-23 “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

JR 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.